Lenovo 81AX

Performance Results


Gaming 12% Tree trunk	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 11% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (73rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 27 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 80.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	7.21% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	60.1% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

CPU throttled at 90% by Windows. Ensure maximum processor state is set to 100% via Settings > System > Power & sleep > Additional power settings > Change plan settings > Change advanced power settings > Processor power management > Maximum processor state.

Run History

4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago.

System	Lenovo 81AX (all builds)
Motherboard	LENOVO LNVNB161216
Memory	3.9 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20190502
Uptime	0.5 Days
Run Date	Jan 11 '20 at 10:32
Run Duration	131 Seconds
Run User	ZAF-User
Background CPU	0%
CPU Throttled	90%

PC Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-8550U 184,356 User benchmarks, average bench 53% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2 GHz, turbo 3.35 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	80.5% Excellent	Memory 91.4 1-Core 126 2-Core 246 87% 155 Pts	4-Core 380 8-Core 517 57% 449 Pts	64-Core 532 33% 532 Pts
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 80.5% Great: 71%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel UHD Graphics 620 (Mobile Kaby Lake R) 420,154 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Legend(17AA 3973) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 25.20.100.6576 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	7.21% Terrible	Lighting 7.33 Reflection 10.3 Parallax 7.41 6% 8.36 fps	MRender 12.1 Gravity 6.93 Splatting 14.9 10% 11.3 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.21% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Blue 3D 250GB-$31 23,658 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 171GB free (System drive) Firmware: X61130WD SusWrite @10s intervals: 201 194 191 195 192 196 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile)	60.1% Good	Read 319 Write 227 Mixed 155 SusWrite 195 50% 224 MB/s	4K Read 17.7 4K Write 56.2 4K Mixed 11.1 71% 28.3 MB/s	DQ Read 375 DQ Write 301 DQ Mixed 257 214% 311 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 60.1% Great: 105%
Seagate ST1000LM035-1RK172 1TB 452,134 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 822GB free Firmware: LCM2 SusWrite @10s intervals: 117 112 110 119 85 111 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	66.1% Good	Read 121 Write 111 Mixed 61.3 SusWrite 109 74% 101 MB/s	4K Read 1.6 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.2 120% 1.17 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 66.1% Great: 71%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M471A5244CB0-CRC 2x4GB 36,396 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 2 of 2 slots used 8GB SODIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	62.8% Good	MC Read 26.1 MC Write 20.6 MC Mixed 16.7 60% 21.1 GB/s	SC Read 17.7 SC Write 25.4 SC Mixed 23.2 63% 22.1 GB/s	Latency 65.1 62% 65.1 ns
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 62.8% Great: 69%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 9%

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Desktop 56%

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Workstation 9%

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System: Lenovo 81AX

CPU
Core i5-8250UIntelBench 53%, 234,942 samples	596x
Core i7-8550UIntelBench 53%, 184,356 samples	314x
Core i3-8130UIntelBench 48%, 25,471 samples	88x

GPU
UHD Graphics 620 (Mobile Kaby Lake R)IntelBench 5%, 420,154 samples	967x
HD 620 (Mobile Kaby Lake)IntelBench 5%, 387,149 samples	107x
Radeon 530AMDBench 7%, 3,164 samples	29x

SSD
PM961 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBSamsungBench 177%, 99,566 samples	101x
HFS256GD9TNG-62A0A 256GBBench 112%, 7,301 samples	78x
CA1-8D128 128GBLiteonBench 102%, 760 samples	76x

RAM
M471A5244CB0-CRC 2x4GBSamsungBench 57%, 36,396 samples	128x
M471A5244CB0-CRC 0443 RMSA3270ME86H9F-2666 8GBSamsungBench 59%, 663 samples	104x
M471A5244CB0-CRC 0443 RMSA3270MB86H9F2400 8GBSamsungBench 59%, 811 samples	93x

EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $46

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16